Dry Fly 'Expert'

No dry fly content at all in this post.  Today is when your faithful blogger likes to do a little bit of coarse fishing ("coarse" ...

Dan is this year's winner of the Wild Trout Trust auction lot for a day in Duck Holds Wood.  He was hoping that he might be able to catc...

Any child taken by car to somewhere exciting knows this question (and its variants).  Surely, we have all asked it?  Going dry fly fishing i...

A fishing friend, Glen Pointon , has the legend "Living the Dream" running through his entire being.  Just like the legend "B...

It's still early in the season.  The cream of the dry fly fishing is yet to come.  Our evening rises at present remain perfunctory and t...

Ten years ago we moved house to live by the river.  This evening's happenings illustrate why it was a good idea. After a day spent in ...

Some days it does us good to find things are not dead easy.  Today your blogger had the benefit of such a day and it is true the spirits are...

Not for the first time your faithful blogger finds himself completely unready for the upcoming new season.   Fly boxes are in a state of cha...

You'll have to click and look hard at this one.  Can you spot it in the sky?  It was amazing to feel how cold it got and to hear the bir...

Reconnaissance is a good use, maybe even the best use, of the dry fly angler's time during the next month.  Wander and wonder with a goo...

There is a thaw going on outside.  The water is rising a little and yet staying clear as crystal.  It all bodes well for 2015 round her...

Not be long now... Regular Rod

There are a few days left of the trout season and we now have the bonus of some very easy grayling fishing to keep us delighted right up the...